Long reads – Technology news and developments

The history of technological progress is often told through stories of invention. New machines are developed, scientific breakthroughs are announced and innovative products capture public attention by demonstrating capabilities that previously appeared impossible. While these moments undoubtedly deserve their place in the history of innovation, they rarely represent the point at which technology begins to...

Few scientific challenges illustrate the complexity of the natural world more clearly than the study of Earth’s climate. Unlike many physical systems that can be examined in relative isolation, the climate emerges from the continuous interaction of countless processes operating simultaneously across the atmosphere, oceans, land surfaces, ice sheets, biological ecosystems and human societies. Changes...

Artificial intelligence is becoming an increasingly important component of future space missions. We examine the technological challenges that make greater onboard autonomy necessary and consider how this transformation may reshape not only space exploration but also the broader development of autonomous intelligent systems operating in extreme environments Few technological endeavours illustrate the relationship between human...

For much of its history, the relationship between artificial intelligence and military affairs has been portrayed through the lens of autonomous weapons, robotic systems and increasingly sophisticated combat technologies. Public discussion has therefore tended to focus on the prospect of machines replacing human operators on the battlefield, often overlooking a transformation that is arguably far...

Artificial intelligence has long been regarded as one of the most powerful computational instruments ever developed, capable of processing vast quantities of information, recognising complex statistical regularities and assisting researchers in tasks that would otherwise require enormous amounts of time and resources Throughout much of the history of modern science, technological progress has often been...

Beyond the Myth of Job Replacement Few technological innovations have generated as much public debate about the future of work as artificial intelligence. Since the emergence of Large Language Models and conversational systems such as ChatGPT or Claude, headlines have repeatedly warned of an approaching employment crisis in which millions of workers would supposedly be...

Why ChatGPT was only the beginning of the AI revolution The extraordinary success of ChatGPT just in a few years transformed the public perception of artificial intelligence more profoundly than any technological breakthrough since the emergence of the modern Internet. Within only a few months, millions of people who had never previously interacted with advanced...